On Tue, 2004-07-13 at 06:39, Paul Johnson wrote: > ricktaylor@speakeasy.net writes: > > >> From: Paul Johnson [mailto:baloo@ursine.ca] > >> Greg Folkert <greg@gregfolkert.net> writes: > >> > On Mon, 2004-07-12 at 22:35, William F. Dudley Jr. wrote: > > > >> >> I was trying to figure out why xsane was dumping core, > >> >> and fiddling with package selections using dselect, > >> >> and now dselect wants to uninstall most of the packages: > >> > > >> > DO NOT USE dselect! > > > > Why not? > > Why are you asking me? It wasn't me that said it... Sorry it was ME. Dselect though still useful... is really all about installations, no not After install, during machine initial setup. ever seen: apt-get dselect-upgrade It takes the setting from "dpkg --set-selections" and runs it through the mill. Apt-get has MUCH MUCH better dependency handling (yes I know about that in dselect). Ask Joey Hess about dselect, he will flatly tell you to not use dselect. I believe Colin will have similar recommends. apt-get is flat out much better. Some people are now recommending aptitude as it has a more sane handling of suggests and recommends. -- greg, greg@gregfolkert.net The technology that is Stronger, better, faster: Linux
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